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“The president embarked on his first foreign trip witha cleareyed outlook that the world is not a ‘global community’but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actorsand businesses engage and compete for advantage.”

That sentence is the epitome of the Trump project. It assertsthat selfishness is the sole driver of human affairs.It grows out of a worldview that life is a competitive strugglefor gain. It implies that cooperative communities arehypocritical covers for the selfish jockeying underneath. . .

We’ve seen this philosophy before, of course. Powerful,selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realismto justify their own selfishness. The problem is thatthis philosophy is based on an error about human beingsand it leads to self-destructive behavior in all cases.

The error is that it misunderstands what drives human action.Of course people are driven by selfish motivations — forindividual status, wealth and power. But they are alsomotivated by another set of drives — for solidarity,love and moral fulfillment — that are equally and sometimesmore powerful. . .====

I suspect the neoliberal billionaire types you are decryingjust see our universe differently; to them it operates accordingto the Lucifer Principle, and is driven fundamentally by competitionand will to power. If you disagree that’s fine, but I wouldargue that you are then as deluded as any Christian lookingforward to the day that the lions lie down with the lambs.This is also why I would suggest to moderns who are looking fora form of religiosity that is consistent with what we know aboutthe universe to consider some variety of Satanism or Sithism – akind of Zen-Cosmicist acceptance of the Gnostic cosmos we areimprisoned in rather than a longing for a neo-Christian paradisethat will never come.====

Maybe you need to make a deeper, more serious study of fascismthan the cartoon version most people get today. If you do,I think you will find that the ideology is actually quite profound,and is much more deeply rooted in human nature and nature thanthe veneer upon civilization called liberal democracy.

Fascism is the political expression of certain eternal truthswhich liberal societies must eternally deny if in order to survive.Fascism is the government according to the Lucifer Principlewhich drives life relentlessly toward higher levels of order,organization and power. Fascism is man’s hierarchical, tribal,power-seeking psyche expressed en masse. . .====